A federal judge this week granted a preliminary injunction to halt mass layoffs at HHS, saying the Trump administration was not authorized to make sweeping changes to an agency created by Congress.

A federal judge ruled that recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the nation's health workforce.

Mass layoffs and reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stalled out in federal court, as a Rhode Island federal judge sided with a coalition of 19 state attorneys gener | States won a partial block of mass layoffs and the HHS reorganization imposed by the Trump administration in a ruling by a federal district judge Tuesday.